Project Plowshare
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Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives and large non-nuclear explosions for peaceful construction purposes. The program was
The 1962 "Sedan" plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet (98 m) deep and 1,280 feet (390 m) wide.
One of the Chariot schemes involved chaining five thermonuclear devices to create an artificial harbor.
Plowshare's proposed canals near the Panama Canal.
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Project Gnome (nuclear test)
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Project Gnome was the first nuclear test of Project Plowshare and was the first continental nuclear weapon test since Trinity to be conducted outside of the Nevada Test Site, and the second test in th
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…free" device that would use proton-boron fusion to strongly limit the neutron radiation produced. The first Peaceful Nuclear Explosion (PNE) blast was Project Gnome, conducted on December 10, 1961, in a salt bed 24 mi (39 km) southeast of Carlsbad, in southeast New Mexico. The explosion released 3.1 kilotons (13…
View toward the top of the salt dome cavity created by the Gnome underground nuclear test
Monument at the Project Gnome site in March 2004.
shaft to ground zero
surface ground zero